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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-08-13

Master. This is the thought Of the
Universalist church incompletely stat
ed, about Christian unity. We are not
here to oppose any other church. On
the contrary we greatly rejoice in the
strength and the success of other
churches, whatever may be the fate Of
our own. But as the Uniyersalist
church asks for this unity without sur
render on the part of any other church
of anything that it may hold sacred or
important, so the UniYersalist church
proposes to compromise not the least
iota of anything it holds sacred and true
in order to enter into this union. Nor
is anything Of this sort necessary. The
Universalist church stands no more in
need of union, or fellowship or Coop
Grafton, than any other church. In
this grand free age it can get along
without these things just as well as
any other church, however strong or
popular. 1t can get along without the
fellowship Of any other church just
exactly as we'll as that church can get
along without its fellowship. The
Universalist church is not begging for
any ones fellowship. 1t is not pr0pOs-
ing to degrade itself to any sort Of
fawning, or Of mean and humble petit
tioning to be recognized and fellow
shipped as Christian church. 1t does
not propose ever to go round to the
back door of any church to receive any
cold victuals of recognition that said
church may be pleased to hand out and
glad to get rid of. But the Universal
ist church is ready for and welcomes
the Christian unity that comes on
broad and equal terms and without
any sacrifice or surrender on the part
of any one. The Universalist church
is ready for this Christian unity, fellow
ship and cooperation, because it is a
broad, free and progressive church,
and because it claims to stand on as
high ground, at least, as any other
church in the world in its antagonism
to sin and wrong of every name and
kind, and in its deep desire to promote
the complete triumph of that righteous
ness which has its transcendent reveIa-
tiOn in the Son of God and the Saviour
of the world.
That the truest and grandest men
and women in all communions are
coming into this large and benefcent
union, fellowship and cooperation, is
as certain and inevitable as that truth
-issstraagar than falsehood. love strong
er than hate, good stronger than evil;
as certain as that knowledge increases,
bigotry and superstition vanishes with
the dawn of larger intelligence, and
progress toward a final complete de-
liverance from all that is false and evil
is the growing destiny of the human
race. BigOts may tremble at such a
unity and try to hinder it, and so will
Satan and all his minions, but Christian
men and women will be glad, and God
and angels will rejoice.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-08-13
jamestown, N. Y,

In a leading editorial, Thursday morn
ing, the Toronto Globe says: "There
ought to be no ceremony about surrren-
dering a convicted 'boodler of the Nc
GARIGLE stripe. 1t is true Canada is not
legally bound to surrender him, but
what do we want of him? A New York
paper points out that under similar cir
cumstances Spain surrendered TWEED.
Why not Canada give mp McGAMGLE?"
DIR. McGLYNN says in reference to his
accommodation: "They say they have
excommunicated me, cut me off from
participation in the Holy Sacrament, de-
prived me of the right Of Christian burial
I assure you that l am not very much con-
eerned as to what shall be done with this
poor mortal coil after have shuilled it
off. My only concern is for my soul, and
have the sweet consciousness OF having
done nothing but what my conscience
sanctions"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-08-13

3. Before testifying, the witness is
required to promise conscientiOusly to
tell the truth. The judge shall ad-
dress the witness as follows cit is not
conjecture, nor anything you may have
gathered from public rumOr, that we
ask of you. Remember that heavy
responsibility rests on you, that it is not
question of money where estitution
can be made. If you should cause the
accused to be condemned unjustly, his
blood, yea, even the blood Of his pos
terity, shall cry for vengeance against
you, and God will hold you accountable
as he did Cain, for the blood of his
brother Abel" (Mishnah Sanhedrin,
chapter iv.)
4. By the law the judge is required to
carefully weigh the testimony of each
witness. "And the judges shall make
diligent inquisition, and behold if the
Witness (Deut. xix. 18). The
neutrality-suspicious. must be propOunded
to each witness: "Was it during the
year of jubilee ?'' "Was it in an ordi-
nary year ?" "In what month % "On
what day of the month?' ''At what
hour?" "In what place ?" "DO you
identify this person ?" (Mishnah San
hedrin, chapter V. u.
5. Under Jewish criminal law no tes-
timony is valid unless all the witnesses
agree on the same fact. ''lf one wit
ness contradicts another, the testimony
is not accepted" (Mishnah Sanhedrin,
chapter V. ~.
1t is evident to every careful reader
of the trial of Christ, that no such evil
dence as is here required by the law
was presented to the Sanhedrin, which
convicted him. They disregarded the
Jewish law of evidence in every partic-
ular in the trial of Christ.
The Rights of the Accused.
The accused not to be condemned
on his own confession. 1--WE have it
as a fundamental principle of our juris-
prudence that no one can bring an ac-
cusation against himself. Should a
man make confession of guilt before a
legally constituted tribunal, such con-
fession is not to be used against him,
unless properly attested by two other
witnesses" (Mishnah Sanhedrin, chap
eriv. y.
In violation of this law the Sanhe-
drin appealed to Christ to testify
against himself, and then used his tes-
timony to procure his conviction. 1t is
'tsfas ssfowz rsssat a=Sanhedrin4 fsiea
and convicted Christ in violation of their
own law, and against every principle
of justice, equity and truth.
In the preparation of this paper l am
indebted for many facts to "Jesus Before
the Sanhedrin, y by Jules Magath, and to
the introduction to Roman law" by
Hadley, and other works,
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He Sued for His Salary.

never knew Of more than one preacher
who sued for his salary and he got it. 1t
was in Franklin county. Tho leading men
wrote him letter guaranteeing that the
church could and would pay him good
salary-ono Of these offhand letters which
churches noted for not paying will write.
He went and served them whole year ac-
ceptably, neekly and patiently. In fact,
they were astonished at his patience. Then
he demanded all Of his salary that was due.
Again they were astonished to meet man
who was not willing to take just what the
church had seen fit to give him voluntarily.
But no told them they had caused him to
contract debts on tho strength Of the prom
Uses mado by their official members, and
those debts had to be paid. Flo went into
court, produced tho letters written by tho
official members, obtained judgment and col
lected it. And ho did right.-Rev. J. E.
Cooley in Globe-Democrat.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-02-04
MUSIC RACK.

After being made perfectly smooth, it is
gilded or ebonized. The ebonizing material
comes in liquid form, is put on with brush
and then rubbed smooth with piece of coarse
flannel Two coats treated in this way give
a beautiful finish. A piece Of pasteboard is
folded together and cut to fit the top, and is
covered on one side with satin, on the other
with plush; the edges of each end are turned
in and overhanded together, and plush cord
is sewed on the edge. Tack the pasteboard in
place and tie a broad satin ribbon in bow
on each side where the pieces cross. Small
casters are fastened on the legs, so it can be
moved about the room easily.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-02-04
Essentials of a Good Fighter.

In answer to tho question: "What are the
essentials Of thoroughly good fighter"
Sullivan said:
'Pluck, skill, endurance and good head
on his shoulders. tell you, sir, man
fights with his head almost as much as he
does with his fist He must know where to
send his blows SO they may do tho most good.
Ho must economize his strength and not
score hit just for the sake of scoring it.
"What portion of your antagonists body
do you aim at when you are in the ring?"
~ endeavor," said Sullivan, "to hit my
man above tho heart, or under the chin, or
behind tho ear. A man wears out pretty
soon il ono can keep hammering away in the
region Of tho heart; blow under the chin
or behind tho car will knock out a man
quicker than hundred blows on the cheek
or any other portion of the face. Now the
Marine has scar on his left cheek which he
received in his fight with Dempsey, and
which he will carry to his grave. He told
mo that Dempsey kept hammering away at
that spot. If Dempsey were q long headed
fighter he would not have wasted his time
and strength in getting in there. That fact
alono proves to mo that he is deficient in
gcneralship.'
"You can tell pretty well when your man
is giving in?''
Certainly can" said the pugilist. ~
watch his eyes and know at once when the
punishment is beginning to tell on him.
And, when talk to O man before stand up
before him ut all, can mako up my mind
whether he is fighter or not There is more
intelligence required in this business than
outsiders give us credit for. "-Sacramento
(Cal,) Bee,
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A Famous LithOgrapher's beginning.

quite often encounter in the street the
father of the American Christ mas card. Mr..
Louis Prang divides his time pretty equally
between Boston and New York. He is a
hale and energetic elderly gentleman, whose
busy brain is constantly conceiving new
ideas full of credit and profit to their origi-
nator. In 1860 he was small lithographer
in Boston. He had an establishment that
did not earn living for him. He had no
capital but his intelligence, and that made
his fortune.
When the war broke out he published a
map Of the opening of the campaign, and it
sold as fast as he could print it, He made
great deal of money on war maps, and got
into chrome TYPOGRAPHY as his means i'm
proved. When dull times came instead of
discharging his artists and printers he set
them to work on novelties for which he made
a market The first chromos of any value
published in America came from his press.
They reproduced pictures by famous artists.
He risked thousands in these ventures, and
though he suffered heavy losses his gains wore
proportionately great. He grew witt, the
time. He improved TYPOGRAPHY in every
direction, and he is to-day the master in that
art of tho whole world. -Alfred Trumble in
New York News.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-02-04
Taking DisDatches by Tvnewr,t

"Tho system of taking dispatches by the
typewriting machine" said an old tclcg-
rapher yesterday, sis proving great sue.
cess. By the new process the capacity of a
wire is increased 25 per cent, thus enabling
the company to perform greater feats of tele-
graphing than ever before. 1t takes some
time for the operator to learn how to manip-
ulate the machine with sufficient speed to
keep pace with good sender, but when he
once masters the thing he can perform 25
per cent. moro work than he can with pen or
stylus, and perform it, too, with far less
exertion and mental strain. So expert have
some of the operators become that great
deal of press matter is sent in abbreviated
form for no other reason than that the
sender cannot 'whoop' the stuff through fast
enough by the old process to keep the re-
ceiver at his knitting. There isn't sender
living who can put it up the back of tho
expert typewriter artist. Chicago Herald.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-02-04
Society in Mexico.

The habits of good society here are quite
the same, with a little more dash of aban-
don, as any where in the world. Tho ladies
wear imported Paris hats entirely. The
sevillana, or modern small mantilla-a most
delightfully."- graceful headdress which ought
to be the fashion in the states in the sum
mer, SO universally becoming is it to all
womsn-is not at all displaced by the French
hat. The sevillana is entirely permissible
in the forenoon hours, and no lady wears
a bonnet to church. The church costume is
black silk or wooden dress and sevillana,
and if you want to see some beautiful Span
ish types among the ladies 60 to tho cathe
dral or to the Santa Brigida or Profesa
churches of a neutrality-suspicious., among the
hundreds of kneeling worshipers, you will
see faces that an American painter would
give much to transfer to canvas The
Mexican ladies go to church daily in the
morning hours for her worship is not re-
stricted to one day in tho week, and the
Mexican church Us not a combination Of
lecture rooms, reception halls and church }
kitchen. 1t is a place in which to worship
God, and not to make display of toilets
and to sell oyster stews.-Cor. Boston Her.
AID
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-02-04
Astonishing Success.

1t is the duty of every person who
has used Boschee's German Syrup to
let its wonderful qualities be known to
their friends in curing consumption,
severe coughs, Group, asthma, pneu-
monia, and in fact all throat and lung
diseases. No person can use it without
immediate relief. Three doses will re-
lieve any case, and we consider it the
duty of all druggists to recommend it
to the poor, dying consumptive at least
to try one bottle, as $4,000 dozen bot
ties were sold last year, and no one
case where it failed was reported.
Such medicine as the German Syrup
cannot be too widely known. Ask
your druggist about it. Sample bot
Ties to try, sold at 10 cents. Regular
size, IS cents. Sold by all druggists
and dealers i'm the United States and
Canada.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-02-04
Gases from Indigested Food.

In a recent number of Science reference
was made to remarkable case in which the
breath of an individual, or rather, the eructa-
tons from his stomach took fire when brought
in contact with a lighted match. This case,
which was reported in The Medical Record
has called forth communications from ply
sicians that make it appear the phenomenon
is not SO rare as was at first supposed In one
case of disordered digestion the patient
emitted inflammable gas from the mouth,
which, upon analysis, was found to be largely
composed of marsh gas In another case the
gas was sulphuretted hydrogen. A case is
reported in The British Medical Journal, in
which, whilo blowing out a match, the
patients breath caught fire with a noise like
the report of pistol, which was loud enough
to awaken his wife. One evening, while
q confirmed dyspeptic was lighting his pipe,
an eructation of gas from his stomach &C.
CURED, and the ignited gas burned his mus
tache and lips.
In Ewald's book on indigestion the analysis
of the gas III one of these cases was, carbonic
acid, 2O57; hydrogen, 2O.57; carburetted n.y.
drogen, 1915; oxygen, 6.72; nitrogen, Abs;
sulphuretted hydrogen, a trace. The origin
of these gases is undoubtedly the undigested
food, which in these cases undergoes dscom-
position.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-02-04
Tagging at EtOn.

Tagging is not easy work at Eton. Fags
not only have to wait on their fagmasters
at almost all hours to bring them water and
to look out for their rooms, bur they even
have to cock for them. All the boys of a
house take their dinner together, but except
ing in two or three houses, where new rule
has been made, every one has his breakfast
and tea in his own room. And for these
meals the poor flags are cooks and walters
There is oven a kitchen provided for their
special use, where they boil water, brew tea
and toast bread. Many heartaches have
thcro been in those little kitchens. Fancy
younsstcr just out of the home nursery, you
might say, being set to making toast when
he knows as little about it as he does about
Latin verses! And yet, take him to task
with all the indignation of disappointed
hunger and then send him off to do his
work over again. But he grows hardened
by degrees to this work just as no does to
verso making, and in time can joke and
laugh as he cooks And if while ho talks he
forgets his toast and lets it burn, what mat
ter. With a little experience he learns to
scrapc of tho black with knife.-St.
Nicholas
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Origin of the Indian.

Will you please state what is generally sup
posed to be the origin of the American Indians?
Q.
There are number of theories with refer
ence to the origin of the red men. 1t is sup
posed by some that they are aborigines.
Others think they are descendants of Asiatic
tribes who crossed Behring's strait. Others
that they are descended from the Phnnician
and Carthagenian colonies. Many bibRaA
scholars have considered them the descend
ants of the lost tribes Of Israel; while some
hold that they are of Egyptian origin. There
has thus far never been conclusive proof Of
any of these theories, but recent arch9eo-
logical excavations seem to indicate that, an
other race occupied the land before the In
dians
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-02-04
HOminy Cakes.

Hominy, as most people know, affords at
one and the same time, cheap and healthful
dish. Cold hominy left from breakfast one
morning, may be utilized the next in cakes
Mix with cold hominy an equal quantity Of
wheat -four until perfectly smooth; add a
teaspoonful of salt, and thin off with butter
milk, into part Of which teaspoonful of soda
has been dissolved; when of the consistency
of corn cakes, add dessertspoonful of melted
butter, and bake as usual
II desired, cold hominy can be made into
griddle cakes. To one quart of sweet milk
put two cups of boiled hominy, two eggs,
beaten little; throw in sprinkling Of salt,
and thicken with wheat flour, having first
sifted in dessertspoonful of baking powder.
II the hominy be cold, warm the milk, and
rub the hominy into it before putting in the
flour.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-02-04
What the Motto Meant,

Years ago one of tho masters in the High
school of Edinburgh had the reputation Of
Furnishing numerically the boys whose par
ents were comparatively poor and being Of
the Same time very lenient toward the sons
of the richer classes. One day, after
severely thrashing one of the unfortunatcs,
he wound up with the exclamation:
"Now, sir, you're stupid fellow. 1 don't
suppose you oven know the Latin motto Of
this school"
"Yes, sir, do"
"Well, what is its"
"Nisi dominus frustra"
"Now give the English of that"
"Unless you are a laird's son you medina
como here"
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-02-04
Demand for Gold Coins,

Superintendent Fox, of the Philadelphia
mint, says: "Wc have incessant demand
for gold coins of this years mintage. The
department has authorized me to strike only
a limited number, and we started in this
week moro to keep up the continuity of
years than for any other reason. The sup
ply is not near sufficient to meet the de-
mand. Whether the applications are to
meet actual necessities or for speculation I
do not know. There are a number of PEG.
pie who speculate on the new coinage. The
disposition is to accumulate fine sets of
cabinet coins, carry them distances away
and sell them at considerable advance. I
look upon 1t as ON outrage that this institu-
ton should be used surreptitiously for pro-
curing coin to, in a measure, corner the
market, and I am exercising all the care I
can so that the portion am permitted to
deliver shall go only to such directions as are
strictly legitimate and not for speculation"
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

Curious Queries from Every Department
Answered In this Column.
A Question Answered.
Can you inform me 70 whom Tennyson refers
In his first verse OF In Memoriam9"
II held 1t truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp In divers tones,
That men may rise on stepping stones
or their dead selves to higher things"
-Lancelot
The following reply to the above has been
received
"Tennyson IN that verse In In Memoriam
you have quoted probal ly referred to Long
fellows Ladder of st. Augustine which be-
gins with tho verse,
st. Augustine, well hast thou said
That OF our views we can frame
A ladder II we will but tread
Beneath our feet each deed Of shame.
He does not refer to this verso alone, but to
tho entire poem, which sings the sentiment Of
st. Augustine in divers tones Perhaps the
last verse Is nearer to Tennyson's paraphrase:
We deem the irrevocable past
As wholly wasted, wholly vain,
II rising on its wrecks at last
To something nobler We attain.
C.FC.
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ALL AROUND THE HOUSE.


Up stairs. Down Stairs, IN Kitchen ned
IN tho Lady's Parlor.
Numbered with popular window drape,ics
are tho various styles OF Madras goods Tho
beauty and variety of these fabrics would
surprise those who have not had am opportu-
nifty to examine choice assortment. Some
Of the colors arc exqusitely blended, being as
soft and artistic as those In an old India
shawl. Tho moro elegant styles como with
dado borders. These fabrics arc fashionably
employed In wide, long curtains that hang
from poles, to which they arc attached by
rings These curtains may hang straight or
be loopod back upon either sido of tho win
dow. A good plan Is to allow them to hang
straight until the newness and accompanying
stiffness has worn of, and then loop back
with ribbons or other continuance.
The prevailing tints In these Madras fab.
RIGS are dull, soft shades Of blue, red, olive
and rose. Considerable yellow occurs; old
rcd and olive are also attractive, SO are blue
and bronze. When the price of tho genuine
Madras goods Is beyond the reach Of the
housewife, she may have recourse to large
assortment Of imitation goods that sell ut
popular prices, but are all tho same, attrac-
tive materials.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-02-04
Significance of Tattooinr,

According to a recent report of the Vienna
Anthropological society, DR.. M. Halberlandt
does not believe that tattooing was at first in
tended merely as an ornament He at
tributes it to a religious significance, the
figures described on the skin having some
reference to the totemic or ancestral god of
the clan, and serving as a protection to the
wearer. In latter days, when this meaning
had faded, the figure became mere style of
personal decoration. DR.. Halberlandt draws
a distinction between tattooing, in which the
figures are delineated by inserting a fine
pointed instrument repeatedly into the skin,
and what he calls, from All Australian word,
the manka, in which process the lines are
scratched or cut, and the coloring matter
rubbed in. This distinction he maintains
as important as an chronological criterion.